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PH Hilliard follow up - The VALUE of life in Columbus and Nazi nuts · Chuck Douglas

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Speaker 1: Great et salutation said, welcome my friends to another edition
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Speaker 1: to the Power on Chuck Guns who know who you are,
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Speaker 1: and we take it from there my number eight two
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Speaker 1: one nine eight eight six eight two one WTV and
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Speaker 1: no I talk really really fast. You must listen even faster.
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Speaker 1: We get one hour together to night. And last night
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Speaker 1: last night, I tell you what I got. There was
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Speaker 1: an email that came through, uh, somebody from the City
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Speaker 1: of Hilliard who said, you know, we just wanted to
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Speaker 1: you know, make clear correct, so I get out here. Really,
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Speaker 1: I had the longest serving member of the Hilliard City
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Speaker 1: Council in here last night. That doesn't speak for the
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Speaker 1: people of Hilliard. Really, seriously, an elected person, elected representative
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Speaker 1: of the people, didn't speak for the people, but somebody
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Speaker 1: in an appointed position in Hilliard apparently does. I don't know,
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Speaker 1: but I try to be fair. I seriously did. And
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Speaker 1: I hope you were with me last night for that,
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Speaker 1: because it was probably the most productive conversation I have
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Speaker 1: heard about this development disagreement in Hilliard that there's been
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Speaker 1: so far. You know, television has its limitations too. I
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Speaker 1: get one hour with you on the radio. A television
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Speaker 1: news story gets you know, maybe ninety seconds and there's
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Speaker 1: not enough time to really thoroughly hear from anybody, which
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Speaker 1: was the goal last night, but that also meant I
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Speaker 1: didn't get a chance to talk to you. So if you,
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Speaker 1: especially if you live in the Hilliard area, but if
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Speaker 1: you have any thoughts eight two one nine eight eighty six,
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Speaker 1: tonight is your night. I would love to hear from you.
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Speaker 1: If you've got any insight, maybe you've attended some meetings,
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Speaker 1: maybe you've dealt with with the whole process in you know,
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Speaker 1: in the Hilliard area with development or or maybe getting
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Speaker 1: a zoning change or something like that. Any insight that
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Speaker 1: you have you would like to share, feel free to
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Speaker 1: do it. From the outside. It just doesn't look right,
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Speaker 1: doesn't feel right, doesn't sound right, especially when I heard
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Speaker 1: that final love a final little surprise about the application
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Speaker 1: packet that the nor Community Center Islamy Community Center had
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Speaker 1: submitted was not actually what was put before council. I
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Speaker 1: don't understand how this happens, if not intentionally, and if
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Speaker 1: it did happen intentionally, at whose hand and for what reason.
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Speaker 1: But as the councilman said last night, what they submitted
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Speaker 1: and what we voted on were not the same thing.
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Speaker 1: How can you come to a logical, reasonable, fair decision
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Speaker 1: on any request to do anything if the information that
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Speaker 1: you are given is not accurate, is not legitimate. And
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Speaker 1: I will use the word legitimate, because the applicant wants
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Speaker 1: to do something with this building, and they have said
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Speaker 1: here's what we want to do, here's our plan, and
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Speaker 1: the member of council who attended last night said that's
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Speaker 1: not what we got. I just I think that's a
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Speaker 1: really twisted situation. Befully we'll get to the bottom of it.
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Speaker 1: They will not meet again until next week. But I
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Speaker 1: promised the gentleman that gave me the time last night
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Speaker 1: to attend and to talk about this, that I would
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Speaker 1: keep an eye on it, and you know, hopefully we'll
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Speaker 1: have a conclusion in the near future. I can bring
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Speaker 1: it to you and get everybody back on the air
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Speaker 1: and share that with you. But I just maybe it's
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Speaker 1: my inherent caution when it comes to dealing with all
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Speaker 1: things government. I try to be a paranoid or you know,
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Speaker 1: tenfoil hat guy, But there are some obvious there are
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Speaker 1: some obvious flags that raise themselves and if you pay
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Speaker 1: no attention, then it's on you when the result is
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Speaker 1: not favorable, not what you wanted, not what you expected,
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Speaker 1: not what you think is best for your community. City
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Speaker 1: of Columbus also in the news today and Blazer and
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Speaker 1: I talked about this a little bit. The h five
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Speaker 1: hundred million dollars is the figure that they are putting
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Speaker 1: on it. First, I'm gonna say I'm surprised that there
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Speaker 1: has not been louder and more extreme outrage over the
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Speaker 1: fact that the city comes out with this report putting
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Speaker 1: a dollar figure on life. You know, it's costing US
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Speaker 1: five hundred thousand dollars or five hundred million dollars a
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Speaker 1: year in the City of Columbus. Because people are shooting
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Speaker 1: and killing each other. It comes down to money. That's
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Speaker 1: a legitimate question. Does it really come down to money?
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Speaker 2: Is anybody out there going to go I was really
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Speaker 2: mad at this guy, but it's costing the city money,
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Speaker 2: So you know what, I'm gonna put my gun down.
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Speaker 2: I'm not gonna shoot anybody.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, if we just decreased it by twenty percent,
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Speaker 1: which has nothing to do the people who are shooting
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Speaker 1: at each other don't care about the city's budget. I don't.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if they think that's a motivator. You know,
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Speaker 1: we could save so much money if just twenty percent
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Speaker 1: of the people who are shooting would stop shooting every year.
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Speaker 1: They don't care. But what this is is a strategic
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Speaker 1: effort to prepare you. Prepare your mind for additional fees.
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Speaker 1: City parking meters will go up. You watch. Probably won't
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Speaker 1: be long before you get a notice that your your
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Speaker 1: sewer bill is going to go up. If you've got
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Speaker 1: City of Columbus water and sewer, chances are fees payable
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Speaker 1: to the city for permits or whatever will be going up.
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Speaker 1: And if at all possible, you know, we're gonna take
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Speaker 1: a vote on increasing city income text. This is what
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Speaker 1: they do. They prep your mind, They get you ready
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Speaker 1: for it so they can come back and say, well, yeah,
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Speaker 1: we told you. You know, we're spending five hundred million
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Speaker 1: dollars a year on this kind of thing. We warned
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Speaker 1: you about this upfront, and it's going to happen. Just
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Speaker 1: as every time they present a bond issue, and I'm
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Speaker 1: so I'm I get frustrated, not only because they continue
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Speaker 1: to go to the same playbook when they sell you
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Speaker 1: on these bond ideas, but because on people are stupid
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Speaker 1: enough to continue to fall for it when they want
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Speaker 1: to bond pass this. Remember this is not a tax,
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Speaker 1: yes it is. It may not be an income tax,
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Speaker 1: but it is money coming out of your pocket and
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Speaker 1: going into the city coffers. That is a tax. If
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Speaker 1: you're going to have to pay another three percent on
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Speaker 1: your water and sewer bill, that's a tax. I have
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Speaker 1: a philosophical problem with a government owning a utility to
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Speaker 1: begin with. I also have a problem with a utility
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Speaker 1: being a profit generator. If you need it to live,
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Speaker 1: you need it to survive. Just philosophically, yes, I'm a capitalist,
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Speaker 1: but that's one of those stumbling blocks for me. Because
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Speaker 1: you've got to have electricity, you got to have water,
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Speaker 1: you gotta have you gotta have the ability to heat
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Speaker 1: your home. These are not luxury items. If you want
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Speaker 1: to make a profit on you know, what kind of
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Speaker 1: car I buy, what kind of cell phone I buy,
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Speaker 1: or what kind of house I buy. That's a different matter.
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Speaker 1: But stuff that I must have to live, I just
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Speaker 1: don't think that should be a profit center. Call me crazy,
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Speaker 1: but it's usually the first thing they go to when
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Speaker 1: they need to generate more funds. Stuff you must have,
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Speaker 1: or maybe that's just me. I'm going to try to
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Speaker 1: get a few in here before we even take the
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Speaker 1: first break tonight eight two one nine eight eight six
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Speaker 1: number eight two one WTVN. Whether you want to talk
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Speaker 1: about Hilliard or the city of Columbus shot across the
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Speaker 1: financial bouts and I feel free to join me. Pete,
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Speaker 1: you've been on hold the longest, so you're first up
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Speaker 1: on the Legacy Retirement Group dot com phone lines.
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Speaker 3: What up?
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Speaker 4: Yes, regarding yesterday's conversation, and I realized the following might
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Speaker 4: sound conspiracy theory like or far fetched, but somebody made
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Speaker 4: the comment about Gaza, and you know, I at first
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Speaker 4: I was thinking racism, but then I'm just wondering, just
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Speaker 4: throwing my two cents out there, if maybe the election
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Speaker 4: had something to do with it, Maybe whoever decided to
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Speaker 4: change what they actually uh looked at as opposed to
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Speaker 4: what was presented to them. Maybe counsel. I'd be curious
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Speaker 4: to know if the Council is compromised by a majority
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Speaker 4: of Republicans or Democrats, because obviously, well anyway, I'm not
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Speaker 4: going to go there. But I just wonder if this
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Speaker 4: was a non election year, if that would have maybe
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Speaker 4: if we would be if they would if the more uh,
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Speaker 4: the more people would be in this the newer people
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Speaker 4: excuse me, if they would be in this position right now.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll see in there. There are many many questions
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Speaker 1: like that. One of the reasons I wanted to do
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Speaker 1: the show, Pete, was to get people an extended opportunity
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Speaker 1: to to bring that kind of stuff to the table
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Speaker 1: and you know, say, here's what we think, here's what
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Speaker 1: we wonder, here's what we know. And as far as
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Speaker 1: the makeup of the politics, I don't know, and I
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Speaker 1: don't know on purpose because I did not want to
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Speaker 1: assign this to you know, oh, those those damn liberals
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Speaker 1: or those damn conservatives. I just I wanted it to be,
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Speaker 1: you know, just the council as an entity, as a
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Speaker 1: representative of the city of Hilliard. And I think I
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Speaker 1: made the right DESI in there, I hope so.
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Speaker 4: Oh absolutely it was very interesting and I mean i'd
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Speaker 4: never heard about the controversy until last night, and uh
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Speaker 4: it something definitely does not smell right. Uh you know
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Speaker 4: what I mean. It's it's it's it's obvious, and it's
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Speaker 4: sad and it's wrong. And thank you for for for
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Speaker 4: bringing it to light. Uh. You know, it's just these
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Speaker 4: people are being wrong. It's it's it's it's it's just
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Speaker 4: every you know, I'm embarrassed, embarrassed as an American. You know,
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Speaker 4: this is not this is not the country that I
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Speaker 4: grew up in. I'm fifty three, and you know, it
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Speaker 4: just doesn't feel right, you know what I mean.
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Speaker 1: I understand, Pete, and I appreciate you listening last night
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Speaker 1: and calling to night buddy, Thank you very much A
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Speaker 1: two one nine eight eighty six A two one WU
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Speaker 1: TV And yeah, I just I don't understand. I don't
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Speaker 1: And as I said, I what I really don't understand
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Speaker 1: is how paperwork is submitted and then altered before going
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Speaker 1: before council for a vote. That's probably my biggest question
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Speaker 1: in this whole Uh, in this whole scenario, who did it,
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Speaker 1: why they did it, and at whose direction it was done? Again,
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Speaker 1: not a conspiracy theorist. I just like answers A two
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Speaker 1: N WUTVN and Gary, you're on six ten double UTV
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Speaker 1: in high.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Chuck, glad to be on. Yeah. I don't know
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Speaker 3: anything about Hillard. I know one time I got lost there,
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Speaker 3: but other than that, I don't know anything about it.
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Speaker 3: But what I do know about is you said that
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Speaker 3: the City of Columbus is spending five hundred million on
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Speaker 3: these shootings.
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Speaker 1: That's what the report said today. Yeah, five hundred million
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Speaker 1: a year.
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Speaker 3: Well, it just seems to me, if you're spending that much,
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Speaker 3: why don't they double or triple up on the amount
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Speaker 3: of patrolmen in that area where they all those problem areas.
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Speaker 3: That might be saving some money.
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Speaker 1: In an ideal in an ideal world, Gary, that you
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Speaker 1: might be onto something. However, where do our police officers
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Speaker 1: stand right now under the current politics and frankly under
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Speaker 1: this administration? Could they make much of a difference? Would
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Speaker 1: they make much of a difference, because half the time
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Speaker 1: they don't know if they're going to come out the
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Speaker 1: good guys or the bad guys when this thing goes
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Speaker 1: in front of the media, into the courts.
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Speaker 3: Well, Chuck, you got a good point. I'll tell you.
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Speaker 3: Last night, it's the closing of city council. They were
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Speaker 3: discussing that those those guys marching through the city on
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Speaker 3: Saturday or Sunday.
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Speaker 1: Oh those idiots.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, And the count and the president of the
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Speaker 3: City of the Columbus City Council said yeah, and he says,
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Speaker 3: those are Trump supporters.
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Speaker 1: Obviously, obviously they're going to take that round. And you
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Speaker 1: know what, I don't know Gary, that that's correct. I
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Speaker 1: would be just as apt to assume that they were,
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Speaker 1: you know, Trump haters trying to make conservatives look bad
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Speaker 1: by making us look like Nazis and conservatives are the
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Speaker 1: same thing. But if they had the courage of their convictions,
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Speaker 1: quite frankly, no matter what side of the spectrum they
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Speaker 1: were on, they wouldn't have masks over their face exactly.
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Speaker 3: I agree with you, yeah, h but that's all. That's
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Speaker 3: my comment.
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Speaker 1: I appreciate you, Gary, Thank you very much for the call.
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Speaker 1: Eight two one nine, eight eight six is my number,
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Speaker 1: or what eight hundred and six ten DOUBLEUTV And if
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Speaker 1: you want to go that route, we've still got time
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Speaker 1: here before the break. Let's get airic gun six to
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Speaker 1: ten WTV in.
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Speaker 5: Hey, Chuck, good to talk to you. This report on
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Speaker 5: the gun violence costs in the city of Columbus.
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Speaker 1: Yes, sir, I.
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Speaker 5: Can practically guarantee you that they're going to use it
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Speaker 5: to justify more either unconstitutional or constitutionally questionable restrictions on
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Speaker 5: the ability of us peaceable people to own guns and
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Speaker 5: carry them within the city.
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Speaker 1: You know, that wouldn't surprise me either. But I think
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Speaker 1: they're picking the wrong time on the calendar to start
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Speaker 1: that fight. I don't think I don't think they'd stand
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Speaker 1: much of a chance with these municipal Second Amendment overrides
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Speaker 1: that we've seen over the past couple of years. So
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Speaker 1: if they're going to do it, you know what, go
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Speaker 1: ahead and do it. Let's crush it now. Let's get
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Speaker 1: it over with while we know we can.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, they're just going to waste more of our taxpayer money,
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Speaker 5: you know, pass some stupid laws and trying to fight
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Speaker 5: them in courto Well that's their pattern over the past
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Speaker 5: twenty years.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, tie everything up in the court room for as
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Speaker 1: long as possible, and you know, the most inane things.
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Speaker 1: And when they passed that ridiculous magazine ban I look
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Speaker 1: the thirty round magazine. It's not exclusive to but largely
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Speaker 1: that is something that's associated with the AR fifteen rifle.
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Speaker 1: Look at the violence in the city of Columbus, look
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Speaker 1: at the felonious assaults, look at the homicides, look at
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Speaker 1: the last five years. You won't find AR fifteen's being
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Speaker 1: the culprit. That's not the problem. But you ban not
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Speaker 1: the weapon, not the ammunition, not the ownership, but the magazine.
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Speaker 1: That's really that's your logic and how to deal with
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Speaker 1: the problem of violence in our streets. That shows you
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Speaker 1: how backward and disconnected the people are that are making
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Speaker 1: the decisions.
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Speaker 5: You got that right, Eric, Absolutely.
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Speaker 1: I appreciate you, buddy, Thanks very much for the call.
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Speaker 1: You have a nice evening and enjoy the warmth before
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Speaker 1: it all goes away. Let's get Wes in here before
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Speaker 1: we go to break west. You're on six to ten
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Speaker 1: level UTVN.
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Speaker 6: Hey, something that you might want to ask the city
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Speaker 6: how much money they would they have saved had they
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Speaker 6: kept incarcerated those individuals who got out when they shouldn't
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Speaker 6: have gotten out and use guns to assault others.
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Speaker 1: You mean all those people who you know had bad
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Speaker 1: home lives and their mothers didn't love them, and their
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Speaker 1: fathers ran away and their tonails were dirty, so we
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Speaker 1: let them go right on a note, Oh yeah, yeah, well,
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Speaker 1: repeat offenders are probably I don't have the FBI statistics
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Speaker 1: in front of me, but I would be willing to
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Speaker 1: bet that more than fifty percent of the violent crime
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Speaker 1: committed is probably committed by a repeat offender. I lose
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Speaker 1: you there, Wes.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, you say exactly what I expected you to.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, all right, buddy, I appreciate the call. Two
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Speaker 1: one nine eight eighty six A two one WTV. And
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Speaker 1: it's a night of your phone calls your because I
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Speaker 1: didn't get chance last night, but I wanted to bring
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Speaker 1: you what I brought you before we got into your
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Speaker 1: calls tonight. It's all about your calls, whether it's about
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Speaker 1: Heilliard or or the city of Columbus, or something else
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Speaker 1: that's in the news, that's on your mind that you
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Speaker 1: feel needs a voice, needs to be spoken out loud,
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Speaker 1: Feel Free, six thirty seven Chuck Downcinson for the power
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Speaker 1: our six ten double the UTV. And I don't know
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Speaker 1: if this is a male or female ber n e y,
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Speaker 1: I mean Bernie is how i'd say it. But does
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Speaker 1: that sound like a female Bernie or a male Bernie.
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Speaker 2: I've never heard it. Spe I'm gonna go ahead and
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Speaker 2: guess the mail.
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I've got no idea, just a message
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Speaker 1: I got on the messenger here. It's from Bernie. So
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Speaker 1: Hey Bernie, but asking about the did I say anything
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Speaker 1: about the Nazis. A little bit ago with Blazer, I
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Speaker 1: was talking a little bit about it and then I
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Speaker 1: had to call her earlier references. And my biggest question
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Speaker 1: about the stories here in fact, let me go here
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Speaker 1: the the I mean wear my Channel ten site. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: the Channel ten story, the neo Nazis, neo Nazi. I
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Speaker 1: keep wondering what neo? Why? Why are the word neo
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Speaker 1: is in there? Because I always thought neo was like
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Speaker 1: pseudo was like almost was like close, but no cigar ish.
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Speaker 2: I think it's supposed to be like you have the
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Speaker 2: original Nazis. Nazis and anybody that comes after them are
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Speaker 2: like a pretend version.
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Speaker 1: The pretend Nazis. Yes, exactly, So they keep throwing around
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Speaker 1: neo Nazi, which I think actually is a disservice to
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Speaker 1: you know, anybody who has a problem with them. You
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Speaker 1: don't want them to be neo Nazis. Just call the Nazis.
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Speaker 1: I mean they're wearing the uniforms, they're waving the flag,
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Speaker 1: they got the swastickers when they're Nazis.
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Speaker 2: I mean the real Nazis didn't cover their faces, so.
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Speaker 1: Well, that's true. Yeah, and some of them were ugly
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Speaker 1: and probably should have. So the idea that you know,
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Speaker 1: neo is just I feel like it minimizes them. It
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Speaker 1: just doesn't. If you want to be outraged about them,
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Speaker 1: then drop the neo, I would think. I mean again
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Speaker 1: that maybe it's just my misunderstanding of what the what
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Speaker 1: neo means. But uh, you know, like I said, they
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Speaker 1: wore masks, so it's just crap ole upeoval.
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Speaker 2: Seriously, how many people were there, like twelve?
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Speaker 1: There were twelve of them? Yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 2: I always thought the fastest way to kill any type
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Speaker 2: of ideology or any type of a protest is to
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Speaker 2: ignore it. If there's no feedback at all, there's no
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Speaker 2: reason to go out in March.
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Speaker 1: Well back back in the early nineties, I remember the
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Speaker 1: ku Klux Klan, which is, by the way, the dumbest
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Speaker 1: name for an organization. What does that mean? Even? What
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Speaker 1: is ku kyu? Coo? What does it mean? Coo? No,
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Speaker 1: it's Q you're supposed to say, Okay, the q klux CLA.
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Speaker 1: It still sounds stupid, but they were up. They wanted
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Speaker 1: to hold their little rally on the State House stairs.
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Speaker 1: And uh you know the advice of course from law enforcement.
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Speaker 1: So if they ignore them, ignore them. And people do
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Speaker 1: and want to ignore them. But for the most part
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Speaker 1: they did well. When's the last time they came around?
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Speaker 1: You know, they're dinosaurs, They're they're nothingness. And a lot
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Speaker 1: of people are outraged that the police were able to
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Speaker 1: do nothing about these idiots walking with their swastikas down
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Speaker 1: through the Short North. They didn't break any laws, folks,
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Speaker 1: they did not break any laws. You can wear the
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Speaker 1: Nazi insignia, it's not against the law. You can walk
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Speaker 1: up and down the streets, it's not against the law.
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Speaker 1: You can say we don't like no white people. We
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Speaker 1: don't like no black people. We don't like no people
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Speaker 1: from Antarctica, we don't like no mercom Indians, we don't
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Speaker 1: like no fern Indians. Wait, they can dislike hate anybody.
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Speaker 1: They want free speech. Now if they say we want
18:50
Speaker 1: to kill us some black people, now you got a problem.
18:54
Speaker 1: Now you got a problem that is a direct threat
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Speaker 1: of violence against someone based on their skin color or ethnicity.
19:03
Speaker 1: Now you have a problem. Now you have what they
19:05
Speaker 1: can consider hate speech and take action. But quite frankly,
19:10
Speaker 1: you are within your constitutional rights to sit around hating
19:15
Speaker 1: on anybody you want to hate on. And you know what,
19:21
Speaker 1: thank the Good Lord for it, because you are not
19:25
Speaker 1: limited in what you think. Neither is anyone else. And
19:30
Speaker 1: that is the beauty, that is the freedom of the
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Speaker 1: United States of America. Zuckerberg can't come to your house
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Speaker 1: and tell you can't talk that way on your front
19:39
Speaker 1: porch to your neighbor. But he owns Facebook, well, he
19:43
Speaker 1: controls Facebook. That's his platform, his company's platform. So yeah,
19:50
Speaker 1: if they don't like what you put up there, they
19:51
Speaker 1: can take it down. They can block it, they can
19:54
Speaker 1: mute it, they can do whatever they want to because
19:55
Speaker 1: it's theirs. Once you put it on their platform, it's theirs.
19:59
Speaker 1: Same thing with Twitter, same thing, same thing with truth
20:01
Speaker 1: Social it's theirs. I know they want to be the
20:05
Speaker 1: you know, the open conservative option for but if they
20:09
Speaker 1: decide they don't like what you're saying, they can take
20:11
Speaker 1: you down to it's theirs. However, you can stand on
20:18
Speaker 1: your front porch and say any nasty thing you want,
20:21
Speaker 1: as long as you do not threaten anyone's freedom, safety,
20:26
Speaker 1: ability to live and pursue life and happiness. You can
20:30
Speaker 1: say anything you want, you hate anybody you want. That's America.
20:34
Speaker 1: And quite frankly, if you're that kind of person. Most
20:36
Speaker 1: normal people don't have time for you. Anyway, twelve clowns
20:41
Speaker 1: on a weekend day, zipping through the show, you notice
20:44
Speaker 1: they didn't hang around and talk to anybody.
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Speaker 2: They walk down one road and that was it.
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Speaker 3: It was.
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Speaker 1: In the cars and gone. Yeah, they wasn't staying there.
20:56
Speaker 1: That was like Colonel klink Man. They were not going
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Speaker 1: to stay around for anything. Now, I generally don't have
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Speaker 1: much use for the BLM rioters, but had they shown
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Speaker 1: up for a reunion or something that day, I probably
21:08
Speaker 1: would have got some popcorn. But you know, they didn't.
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Speaker 1: They didn't, and I'm glad they didn't because I wouldn't
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Speaker 1: want to see, believe it or not, I would want
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Speaker 1: to see people who were upset over that crap get
21:20
Speaker 1: themselves into trouble. And it's all garbage. It's all garbage people. Look,
21:27
Speaker 1: we're all people. Act like a decent human being, get
21:30
Speaker 1: treated like a decent human being, Act like a thug,
21:32
Speaker 1: get treated like a thug. That's how it works.
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Speaker 2: I just thought the base premise of the the neo
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Speaker 2: Nazis or the KKK, it doesn't. I never accepted the
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Speaker 2: argument in any way, shape or form, because at base level.
21:43
Speaker 2: You didn't strive to become white, and you're not better.
21:48
Speaker 2: You happen to be born white. It's nothing you achieved, right,
21:51
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. So the whole premise of
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Speaker 2: the entire organization, the foundation of their arguments is doesn't
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Speaker 2: make it e sense.
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Speaker 1: Well, it was blessed to be born what in the
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Speaker 1: mark God's That was their thing, That was their thing.
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Speaker 1: And if you weren't, then you were somehow being you know,
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Speaker 1: you were, you were the pariah you had to be,
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Speaker 1: you know, kicked down a few notches and treat it
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Speaker 1: like a non person, a non human. You weren't equal
22:16
Speaker 1: in any way, shape or form, and you should never
22:18
Speaker 1: get into your head that you were. But that was
22:22
Speaker 1: a long time ago. Doesn't apply now, unless, of course,
22:26
Speaker 1: you make it apply to yourself. You know, if you
22:29
Speaker 1: represent yourself in a way that no one respects, regardless
22:32
Speaker 1: of their color, their political affiliation, their socioeconomic status, they
22:36
Speaker 1: just look at you and say, bum evil, stupid trash.
22:41
Speaker 1: That's got nothing to do with anything except you conduct
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Speaker 1: yourself like a decent human being. Be respectful, be respectable.
22:53
Speaker 1: Learn all you can learn, Utilize what you do. Learn
22:56
Speaker 1: to make yourself your life, your family, your community a
23:00
Speaker 1: better place, and you will be respected regardless of your
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Speaker 1: skin color, or where your grandparents were born or anything else.
23:10
Speaker 1: Respect has absolutely zero to do with what color you are.
23:15
Speaker 1: You can determine how you are treated. Let me say
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Speaker 1: that again. You can determine how you are treated. Yeah,
23:27
Speaker 1: but there's always going to be that one guy. Screw
23:29
Speaker 1: that one guy. There's three hundred and thirty million, not
23:33
Speaker 1: that one guys. You determine that, and to let yourself
23:41
Speaker 1: get all fired up and in a mindset where you're
23:45
Speaker 1: ready to do something stupid because Clancy and his clowns
23:51
Speaker 1: walk down the street over the weekend, that's exactly what
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Speaker 1: they're going for. They want, they want your outrage to
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Speaker 1: resild and you doing something stupid so they can say, see, look,
24:03
Speaker 1: look at the animals. But you notice where they were
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Speaker 1: right there in the short north They didn't they didn't
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Speaker 1: go past Malvernon Plaza.
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Speaker 2: They're not doing that in hilltok.
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Speaker 1: Come on over to my beloved west side. Yeah. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: they went someplace where they knew there would be very
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Speaker 1: little confrontation. And the oddity is it wasn't so long
24:25
Speaker 1: ago when the Columbus City Hall was talking about the
24:28
Speaker 1: increased law enforcement presence in the short North to maintain
24:30
Speaker 1: safety up there, and yet you know there were no
24:34
Speaker 1: officers seen from what I understand.
24:36
Speaker 2: Well, they shut down the food carts at all the violence.
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Speaker 1: Well yeah, they were out making sure the brought worst
24:41
Speaker 1: were being served at illegal hours. And you know, even
24:45
Speaker 1: if they were there, honestly, they couldn't have done anything.
24:49
Speaker 1: And had they tried to do something, we would be
24:51
Speaker 1: right back in another lawsuit and we would lose that lawsuit,
24:55
Speaker 1: or we would settle it and spend more hundreds of
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Speaker 1: thousands of dollars, which is exactly what they want. You
25:03
Speaker 1: gotta be smarter than the opposition, and sometimes it doesn't
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Speaker 1: take many brain cells to do that. Why am I
25:10
Speaker 1: spending so much time talking about it? Because it's going
25:12
Speaker 1: to happen again, Trust me, it's going. This is not
25:18
Speaker 1: a one off man. When people start stirring the put
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Speaker 1: like this, they keep stirring until they find out it's
25:23
Speaker 1: not gonna boil, and then they move on.
25:25
Speaker 2: You know, they're all twelve of those guys are sitting
25:27
Speaker 2: there on social media going what are they saying today?
25:29
Speaker 2: Where are they saying?
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Speaker 4: Now?
25:30
Speaker 2: Yeah, I look at it. Yeah, you know, they think
25:33
Speaker 2: it's great.
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Speaker 1: It's most most sickos are. And again, don't make any
25:37
Speaker 1: assumptions about who they were or or what they represent
25:41
Speaker 1: or not. Only could they have been, you know, democrats
25:45
Speaker 1: or liberals, they could be some college kids out there
25:49
Speaker 1: just trying to you know, do something stupid to get
25:52
Speaker 1: reactions from people. Well, they wouldn't do that. Have you
25:55
Speaker 1: seen the idiots that are on like YouTube and so
25:58
Speaker 1: forth now that just they go out and do crazy stuff,
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Speaker 1: get up in your face at the shopping mall just
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Speaker 1: to intimidate you and run through the mall and hitch
26:08
Speaker 1: you in the back of the head, or one guy
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Speaker 1: goes up and he flips you over his shoulders into
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Speaker 1: the street. There's stupid people doing stupid stuff, especially younger
26:16
Speaker 1: people out there. They're not trying to be necessarily hurtful.
26:20
Speaker 1: They're just stupid. So if we were to find out
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Speaker 1: that those twelve people were like college kids who managed
26:27
Speaker 1: to raid the costume department at the school and the
26:31
Speaker 1: theater department's going where dour stuff go. But and they
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Speaker 1: just walking down the street in theater department costumes, wouldn't
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Speaker 1: surprise me at all and not thinking at all that.
26:45
Speaker 1: You know, it would cause an uproar. But what's worse.
26:48
Speaker 1: If that's the case, probably wouldn't consider, Oh, somebody's going
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Speaker 1: to stop us and beat the crap out of us either,
26:55
Speaker 1: which can happen. I just saw something apparently it was
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Speaker 1: like from three years ago, maybe in Virginia. Guy with
27:02
Speaker 1: a cell phone and I forget what. He had an
27:05
Speaker 1: audio on his cell phone. It was saying something stupid
27:07
Speaker 1: like cushy, cushy, cuckoo or something. And he goes up
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Speaker 1: to some guy and he points the phone up and
27:12
Speaker 1: his fakes what does this mean to you? Cuk he
27:14
Speaker 1: cuk he cucka And the guy goes get away from me,
27:17
Speaker 1: and he keeps following. And the guy turned around, pushed
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Speaker 1: the phone away from and he keeps following. The guy,
27:21
Speaker 1: reaching his pocket, pulled out a pistol and shot him.
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Speaker 2: When he said get away from me.
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Speaker 1: That's enough, he retreated. He told him get away twice.
27:28
Speaker 1: The guy continued to follow him and harass him under
27:31
Speaker 1: fear of his life. He was charged with it was
27:35
Speaker 1: uh uh what was it? Something use of a firearm,
27:38
Speaker 1: inappropriate use of firearm or something like that. And as
27:41
Speaker 1: I continue to read story apparently he was acquitted all
27:43
Speaker 1: those charges because he was being harassed and he was
27:46
Speaker 1: a smaller guy. This is a big burley youngster. And
27:49
Speaker 1: uh and he said, you know, I was in fear
27:51
Speaker 1: for my life. Yeah.
27:52
Speaker 2: I mean that's a tragic situation, but it is.
27:55
Speaker 1: But you've got to understand when you act like that,
27:57
Speaker 1: you're putting yourself into that tragic situation.
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Speaker 2: And don't mess with people you don't know because you
28:04
Speaker 2: could get shot.
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Speaker 1: Yes, so, yes, I do. I do. As much as
28:09
Speaker 1: I condemned the stupidity of the Nazis. I also the
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Speaker 1: next day a group of black pastors and church members
28:18
Speaker 1: walked the same route and they got not nearly as
28:21
Speaker 1: much news coverage as the Nazi boys got, but they
28:24
Speaker 1: were out there as well as Herssel Craig, who has
28:27
Speaker 1: served in several offices. I think he's currently a state
28:29
Speaker 1: representative if I'm not mistaken. And Herssel was out there
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Speaker 1: at the front of the pack. And what made me
28:35
Speaker 1: sad about it, I didn't see I didn't see any
28:37
Speaker 1: white people. I don't know if they weren't invited. If
28:42
Speaker 1: you know this group of pastors wanted to make this
28:44
Speaker 1: specifically a black issue or not but you know, the whole,
28:48
Speaker 1: the whole reason there there are were memories of Nazism
28:53
Speaker 1: had nothing to do with black folks. Guys. You know,
28:56
Speaker 1: let the white folks in, Let the Jewish folks in.
28:58
Speaker 1: I'm sure they feel just as as upset by that
29:02
Speaker 1: little display of stupidity as you do. And showing that
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Speaker 1: unity between the races, between the religions coming together to
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Speaker 1: walk that same street, just to say, look, there's way
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Speaker 1: more of us than there are of you. We're about peace,
29:15
Speaker 1: We're about taking care of each other. We're not about
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Speaker 1: this vile crap that you're promoting. Showing people of all
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Speaker 1: hues of the rainbow out there, hundreds of them. Well,
29:26
Speaker 1: then twelve yahoos and mask pales in comparison, doesn't it so?
29:31
Speaker 1: Great job on the peace March the next day, but
29:34
Speaker 1: I would have loved to have seen that been a
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Speaker 1: little more inclusive. All Right, I gotta get out of here.
29:38
Speaker 1: It's time for me to fly. We'll do this skin
29:39
Speaker 1: tomorrow night at six pm, and I hope you will
29:42
Speaker 1: join me for it. This thing called the Power Hour
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